Machine for finishing the packing of barrels.



L. STOBGK & J. H. VOGT. MACHINE FOR FINISHING THE PACKING OI BARRELS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 21,1906. 901,753. Patented Oct. 20. 1908.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. VOGT AND LOUIS STORCK, OF STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT.

MACHINE FOR FINISHING TI-m PACKING OF BABRELS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN H. Voer and Louis STORCK, citizens of the United States, and residents of Stamford, in the county of Fair-field and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Finishing the Packing of Barrels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is an improvement in machines for finishing the packing of barrels and other shipping cases with a pulverized or granulated material, and is especially constructed for performing this operation upon shipping cases which have been packed with our improved packing machine disclosed in an application for patent filed of even date.

The invention has particularly in view, the provision of a yielding support on which the barrel is seated, feeding means for introducing into the barrel the material to be packed, and a plunger working through the feeding means.

Reference is to be had. to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the preferred form of our improved machine, partly in central vertical section; and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same, also partly in central vertical section.

The frame of the machine is composed of a base 5 with side frames 6 attached thereto and rigidly connected together at their upper ends by a top 7, and at intermediate points by cross-bars 8. Rising from the base '5, between the side frames 6, are vertical guides 9, preferably in the nature of shafts, on which is sliclably mounted a box support 10, which, as shown in Fig. 2, is open at the front and is provided on its bottom with a projecting disk or plate 10 for centering the barrel and supporting its bottom. The corners of the box support near its top edge are connected with cables 11, the rear cables of which pass over sheaves 12 journaled on the top 7, and thence pass to the front of the machine over sheaves 13, over which the front cables 11 also pass, the last mentioned sheaves having double grooves for this purpose. The free ends of each pair of cables are attached. to weight hangers adapted to carry a number of removable weights 141, which operate to normally force the top of Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 21, 1908.

Patented Oct. 20, 1908.

Serial N 0. 428,374.

the box support 10 against the lower crossbeam 8. Also attached at opposite sides of the box support near its top edge are cables 15 which pass over sheaves 16 journaled adj acent to the base 5, and thence pass and are connected to drums 17 attached near the 0pposite ends of a cross-shaft 18. This shaft is further provided adjacent to one of the drums 17 with a drum 19, over which passes one or more times, a cable 20, having a weight hanger attached to its free end, carrying a number of removable weights 21. Adjacent to the other drum 17, the shaft 18 is provided with a hand-wheel 22, and at the inside thereof with a brake 23, the latter being in the nature of a flexible band passing over a disk operable by a hand-lever 24, which, as shown, is provided with a number of notches for engaging a weight 25.

Centrally supported between the crossbars 8 is a hopper 26, preferably having a double conical form, as shown, and provided with tubular extended ends, one of which serves as a discharge neck 27 and projects some distance below the bottom of the crossbar 8. A feed tube 28 leads from the top of the machine into the upper portion of the hopper.

Slidable on the guides 9 is a cross-head 29, having a plunger 30, centrally depending therefrom, which passes through the hopper 26, and is of such diameter to neatly fit within the discharge neck 27. The lower extremity of the plunger is preferably of conical form, and is provided with a number of cross-pins or other equivalent devices 31, serving to agitate thematerial within the hopper and cause the same to flow through the discharge neck thereof when the plunger moves upwardly.

On the top 7, a crossshaft 32 is journaled in suitable bearings, and has a driving pulley 83 attached thereto at an intermediate point, and cranks or crank-disks 3d secured to its opposite ends, the pins of the latter being connected to correspondingly projecting pins of the cross-head 29 through the intermediary of links 35.

In the operation of the machine, after the barrel has been packed and the head applied, which should be supplied with a central opening, the barrel is seated on the box support 10, and is permitted to pass with it against the cross-beam 8 gradually by the operation of the hand-wheel 22 and brake 28, the barrel being so positioned by the Y plate 10 to receive the discharge neck 27 t of the hopper through the opening in its 2 head. The plunger 30 is then set in motion through the driving pulley 33 and intermediate mechanism, and the material to be placed in the barrel is introduced into the tube 28. As the plunger passes to its extreme upward position, its lower end is withdrawn from the discharge neck 27, and a quantity of the material in the hopper is discharged therethrough into the barrel, this and the adjacent material in the barrel being closely packed on the descent of the plunger, the tightness or closeness of the packing depending on the resistance the support offers to the plunger, which is controlled by the weights 14.. hen the packing operation is completed, the machine is stopped with the plunger closing the discharge neck and the support lowered for removing the barrel or other receptacle by the operation of the hand-wheel 22.

Having thus described our invention, we claim. as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. The combination of a frame, a crosshead vertically movable 011 the frame, means for reciprocating the cross-head, a box support adapted to carry a receptacle, a hopper having a discharge neck for feeding a material through the head of the receptacle, a

plunger carried by the cross-head and passing through the hopper and its discharge neck for packing the material into the receptacle, and means having removable weights tending to force the support in the direction of the plunger.

2. The combination of a support adapted to carry a receptacle, a hopper for feeding a material into the receptacle having an approximately double conical form provided with tubular extensions at opposite ends, and a plunger l'l'lOVflblG through the hopper for packing the material into the receptacle and having a bearing in said extensions.

8. The combination of a frame, a crosshead movable on the frame, means for reciprocating the cross-head, a support adapted to carry a receptacle, a hopper for feeding a material into the receptacle, a plunger carried by the cross-head movable through the hopper, and separate means having removable weights tending to move the support in opposite directions.

4. The combination of a frame having vertically-arranged guides at opposite sides, a receptacle support slidable on said guides, a cross-head slidable on said guides above the support, a hopper for feeding a material to the receptacle supported on the frame, a plunger attached to the cross-head and operating through the hopper for packing the material within the receptacle, and means tending to slide the support on the guides toward the plunger.

The combination of a support adapted to carry a receptacle, means tor feeding a material into the receptacle, a plunger working through the feeding means for packing the material into the receptacle, weighted.

' means tending to force the support toward the plunger, and weighted means tending to move the support in the opposite direction.

(3. The combination of a support adapted to carry a receptacle, means for feeding a material into the receptacle, a plunger working through the feeding means for packing the material into the receptacle, weighted means tending to force the support toward the plunger, weighted means tending to move the support in the opposite direction, and amanually-controlled brake in connection with the last mentioned means.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN H. VOGT. LOUIS STORCK.

lVitnesses:

Hour, JOHN P. DAVIS. 

